Eggs. Well, we’ve got eggs. To be honest, we’ve got a LOT of eggs. I don’t know if the chickens don’t realize about the molting thing that their supposed to go through or what.. but we’ve got eggs. So the first thing that I did with the extra eggs was to ‘cook’ them in the fire barrel with the trash. Now I’m thinking that this is a good idea right? Well, it really wasn’t that good of an idea after the fact. What happened it that only part of the eggs got cooked and the rest just kind of rotted in the fire barrel and it stunk. So the other day I had again too many eggs and I knew that I couldn’t do the fire barrel thing again, so I ended up scrambling 14 dozen eggs for the cats. Do you have any idea how many 14 dozen eggs make for scrambled eggs? Let’s just say it’s a LOT! I ended up putting two tubs of these eggs in the barn for the cats and Reno to eat and I’m thinking that eventually they’ll get it all ate. Now tonight I took all the eggs from the last couple of days and looked at them to realize that it’s again too many for us to eat. With my options being a little limited at this point, I ended up putting the eggs in a 5 gallon pail and scrambling them with my hands. If you’ve had farm eggs before you know that the yolks are a lot tougher than ‘town’ eggs, so the process of scrambling them took some time. After being up to my elbows in eggs, I finally got it pretty much mixed up. I don’t know how many eggs I had, but I’d guess maybe 10 dozen? So now I’ve got a 5 gallon pail of eggs and I started to water them down. My thought was that if I watered them down, I could put them out in the field and that would be a good idea. That’s what I did and I guess we’ll just have to see if this was the best idea yet for them or not.
So after I got rid of the extra eggs, I could still smell the fire barrel. I decided that I should probably clean it out since I had the time tonight. Wow, that might not have been the best decision I’ve made for awhile. It was terrible! What I ended up doing was taking a sand shovel and a bucket and scooping it out. I laid the barrel out on it’s side so I could get to it better. Like I said, it stunk. But once I started, I thought might just as well finish it. Man I was glad once I got it finish because for some reason I ended up stinking just like it. Now I don’t know where my yard trailer went for behind the mower, but I couldn’t find it for anything. So since I made the commitment to do this, and I couldn’t find the trailer, I ended up pulling the buckets through the yard to the dumpster. They are coming on Wednesday to empty the dumpster so it only made sense right? The buckets kept getting heavier and heavier as I was dragging them across the yard, and I don’t know if it was because they were literally heavier or if it was the sweat that was now dripping off my face that caused me to think that they were heavier. Either way… I was getting pretty tired and sore dragging them through the yard and lifting them in the dumpster. After I finally got done I jumped into the shower. And even after the very long shower that I took I could still smell the smell from those rotten eggs that were partially cooked. So I grabbed a lemon from the fridge and wiped my hands down to cut the odor. It worked for awhile, but not so much now again. Maybe by tomorrow it’ll be gone? I’m just hoping anyway.